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Throughout the day, every day, employees make decisions that have an impact on businesses. There are all sorts of decision and organizational models that are common, many that still cling to the old industrial (hierarchical) model of structuring and managing a business. In the information age making decisions is a critical business function of what […]

In part one of this series we looked at the ESN vendors and how they are evolving to help companies increase productivity and facilitate new ways of working. For this post we’ll focus on how the ESN’s are being used and in part three we’ll look at enterprise adoption and some of the results of […]

Enterprise social networks (ESN) are one of the oldest enterprise social technologies and have evolved into an important backbone of enterprise social activities. While some of the current ESN vendors, generally ones that started in some adjacent markets like blogs and wikis, have been around for over 10 years, the current set of key functions […]

Building out an enterprise social network (ESN) goes beyond just connecting employees to each other. Talking about a company’s ESN one might picture a single network, but in reality many companies will operate with several / many interconnected communities and…

I’m happy to announce that I have added a new analyst to my SBS team at IDC. Vanessa Thompson (@vanessathomps) joins us from our IDC Apac region where she was a market analyst covering software in Australia. She will manage…

Yesterday’s announcement from SAP ended months of discussion on who will buy cloud collaborative commerce vendor Ariba. As I’ve said a few times, most of the larger pure-play cloud vendors are getting a look by traditional large software application vendors,…

If you want to find something, anything on the web, you "google" it…I mean how ubiquitous has a company become when it’s name becomes the verb for a common activity? Now I realize there are other search options, but according…

Considering the ongoing impact of hyper-connectivity and the pervasive nature of the Internet it messes with your head a little to think that what we view as such a modern entity grew out of point-to-point connectivity of mainframe computers in…

By now you’d pretty much have to live under a rock to be completely ignorant about online social networks, whether you participate in them or not. Earlier this week facebook hit the news again with its ever rising valuation now…